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The “Oiliest” Civilization

buy cheap Discount price for students autodesk inventor professional 2015 Flash Catalyst CS5.5 student Flash Catalyst CS5.5 student motionbuilder 2012 product key buy cheapDiscount price geometric camworks 2016 buy now buy buy buy discount buy discountProject Professional 2003 Buy adobe premiere elements 10 windows server 2008 r2 Project Professional 2003 windows server 2008 r2adobe photoshop cs4 buy Microsoft Office ACT Premium 2012 buy Microsoft Office Purchase by cheap adobe dreamweaver cs4 In Basil Gelpke and Ray McCormack’s film, “A Crude Awakening”, they claim that our addiction to oil will eventually spark our own apocalypse. Gelpke and McCormack support this claim by showing the film’s viewers how heavily the human race relies on fossil fuels, along with intense, real-life images of once prosperous oilfields in their present and desolate forms. Grueling images of major oil producers in Venezuela, Texas, and even Kuwait are shown in a then-and-now fashion to remind the viewers of our rapid oil consumption. Simultaneously, an orchestra plays music with intentions to personify a catastrophe, signified by the music’s use of deep swells and low tones and overall downbeat tempo. This music is another way to connect with the viewer in pathos, or emotional appeal, and sets the mood for the terrible predictions being stated by some of the world’s top physicians that our oil supply is scarcer than we’d like to believe. The film even cites an incorrect but important prediction by the late Dr. M. King Hubbert, that “the world’s oil supply would be depleted in 10-15 years” (Hubbert, Dr. M. King, 1975) from the year 1975. The film indicates that the only nation that hasn’t peaked in oil production is the Middle East, and that is the reason for our war.

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